Daily Links 25/02/2008

ScottGu has just posted some handy tutorials on the soon-to-be-released silverlight 2.0


NSpecify
an interesting look at evolving NUnit testing

Code performance analysis in VS 2008

Data-Driven testing with VS 2008

How to follow DotKicks.com efficiently
plus handy DNK widgets

Digitally signing an XML Document and verifying the signature

Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability

another blog post on the subject

C# .NET Gmail Tools

Do try...catch blocks hurt runtime performance?
short answer.. no, it doesn't.

Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes
mostly to do with UI design

Daily Links - 04/10/2007

More articles wrt [Distributed] caching
Caching Architecture Guide for .NET Framework Applications
NCache - distributed caching for .NET

NHibernate for .NET - persistence framework for .NET (also provides model whereby you can "plug in" the caching mechanism)
"It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database."

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format
Highly compressed XML standard for across-the-wire transactions. Links are from
previous post comments, but I thought it interesting enough to link here.
Implementation from 3rd party vendor: AgileDelta

Daily Links - 7/9/2007

Continuous Integration For .NET 2.0 Development Environments: Downloadable Booklet

Top 10 Tips on Version Control for Small Agile Software Teams

JavaScript Tutorial - using setTimeout & setInterval

Simple Tutorial on How to set up Subversion
Subversion is an alternative open-source source control software
Visual Studio plugins that support SVN include Ankh and VisualSVN

Why Write Test Code?

Beautify your Blog's Code Samples with These Syntax Highlighters

XML Notepad
View an XML file in treeview / value format (no tags to confuse layman users)
Also handy for creating template xml files

DataBinding an Enum with Descriptions
Handy article on binding Enums as datasource to controls. Includes .NET 3.5 extension method use

101 Tools for conversion
List of conversion tools to convert files from one format to another (media / documents / images etc.)

Daily Links - 20/8/2007

Browse CodeProject directly in VS 2005:
VS 2005 Code Project Plugin

Something I discovered a while back which has proven quite handy - nullable types in C#:

XML Serializer:
I've actually implemented XML serialization as a persistence mechanism in my base class, but this is also a good (probably better) way of doing it. Simple and clean - I like.

Software Dev Lesson - don't under-estimate the power of eye-candy

classic dilbert







Cars:
Everything you wanted to know about the latest Astin Martin DBS

Games:
Bioshock reviews.
Seems to be living up to the hype and publicity.

Good news for warhammer & xbox 360 fans:
Warhammer 360 game
I actually prefer the 40k universe though.